Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...auditorium at the school is designed so that the house merges with the stage, lending an intimacy used to its fullest by Paxton and his audience of local modern dancers. Ending the first section, Paxton announces in a quiet rising tone, his voice gently concluding the dance phrase (or perhaps shyly inviting friends home), "I think there's some cider." He turns, a reserved host, slips on his sandals and walks off upstage. Those watching aren't sure if it's intermission or if the concert's over, but soon someone passes the right word, and everyone stands to stretch...
...everyone knew the author, but the phrase was familiar: "the moral equivalent of war." It was quoted without attribution by President Jimmy Carter last week in an attempt to mobilize the nation against the squandering of energy. But the words were first uttered in 1910 by Philosopher William James, who had something else in mind...
...arguments (though without a sensible rate of growth, the American society is marked for a stagnation in which the poor and disfranchised are given no exit). Can differing visions-not to mention the ordinary, everyday desire to get along-be pulled together into a joint resolve under that Jamesian phrase...
...more like an open-ended siege than a war with an expected end. Barring some technological miracle, that siege will persist beyond this generation and its survivors. It must be borne a bit at a time until Americans revise the way they live. Contrary to William James' phrase, today it is not Nature that needs to be subdued, and perhaps not even Human Nature. There is a very real desire, shared by mankind the world over, for a common cause, even a common destiny. But what is required to provoke enlistments today is not as simple as war. Carter...
Little Choice. Rabin had little choice in resigning, since he was already under police investigation for violation of Israel's foreign currency laws. His stepping down, said a grim Rabin, was a "sad end" to a three-year political stewardship. Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz had another phrase for it: "the biggest political crisis in the history of the state of Israel...